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Stop Killer Cops: Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and the Liberal Establishment

September 4, 2019August 31, 2019 AAIHS Editors Activism, Los Angeles, New York, organizing, police violence, policing, racism, urban history, violence

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Online Roundtable–Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League

September 3, 2019September 4, 2019 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #UpendingTheIvoryTower

September 9–13, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Civil and Human

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“The Most Important Place in the World”: On Puerto Rico and the Freedom Struggle

August 2, 2019July 28, 2019 Dan Berger Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, black protest, Caribbean, colonialism, freedom, Politics, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico, Social Movements

Though the United States has colonized Puerto Rico since 1898, when the country took the island as booty in the

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Starfish and Guerrilla Warfare: Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied at 30 Years

July 29, 2019July 28, 2019 Keelyn Bradley #TonguesUntied30, art, Black film, Black Queers, film, Gender, LGBT, race, sexuality, trans identity

*This post is part of our online forum to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s groundbreaking film, Tongues Untied. During a

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DC Jazz: A New Book about Jazz Music in Washington, DC

July 19, 2019July 9, 2019 J. T. Roane art, jazz, music, Washington DC

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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